This course, open to music therapy majors and other interested music students, teaches harmonizing diatonic and chromatic melodies on guitar, piano, and related instruments. After reviewing core harmony, students explore lead-sheet notation, Nashville numbers, tablature, and chord boxes, building fluency through skills-based assessments, performances, and creative projects.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students will apply concepts learned in a conference proposal project.
Athena Title
Melody Harmonization
Non-Traditional Format
Graded assignments, quizzes, readings from literature, course surveys, and “Sing & Play” evaluations are used for assessments.
Prerequisite
MUSI 2100 and MUSI 2110
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
By the end of the semester, successful students will be able to analyze a melody’s phrase structure and harmonic implications at sight.
By the end of the semester, successful students will demonstrate skills on various instruments in “Sing & Play” exercises.
Developing New Concepts: Establishing guidelines for prolongation, Melodic analysis, Chord symbols, Nashville numbers, tablature, and chord boxes
A Sight-Singing-Based Approach: Melodies will be supplied from various sight-singing texts, with analytical detail paid toward the structure of the text and how that structure can inform the types of harmonic support that can be used, Conjunct diatonic melodies, Sequential and disjunct diatonic melodies, Chromaticism and modulatory melodies
